Hi

Just paying a quick visit to this newsgroup, prior to taking the car
to the garage.

It's a renault megane, about 5 years old, and when turning on the
electrics (ie before even turning on the engine) there's a
knocking/straining noise coming from under the dashboard towards the
base of the window.

It -sounds- like a motor of some kind is straining to do something.
After a few moments it stops and everything is (or appears to be) aok.
It's been doing it for a few weeks now, and isn't getting worse.

On this sketchy info, any suggestions as what it is that might be
wrong?


Maurice

In message <7qok13pkn3tosqtkmiek5lnjgl8ls2i1ec (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, Maurice W
<m@m.com> writes

Dodgy ventilation fan motor? Try changing the fan speed and see if this
affects the noise



--
leo

"Maurice W" <m@m.com> wrote

Just a wild guess. Some sort of servo valve in the heater circuit?
Mike.

"Mike G" <metier (AT) lycos (DOT) co.uk> wrote

There is a known fault on Renaults, the motor driving the heating flap goes
internaly wrong, continually driving the flap round and round with a steady
thumping noise. Only cure is a replacement unit.

Rdgs

PDH

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:08:20 GMT, "Paul Hubbard"
<jessnet (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> wrote:

Well, that's what I'm going to suggest to the mechanic when I take it
in to the garage, in the hope of not appearing to know f*** all about
cars! (When people ask me what kind of car I've got, I tend to reply
'a green one' which gives them an indication that I'm not going to be
able to contribute much to an auto discussion!)

Thanks :-)

M